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Before TET my platoon was detached from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, split into two squads with their sergeant squad leaders assigned to my drunk Platoon Sergeant by our wing knocker 1st Lt.

On November, 22, 1963, I had finished classes and was sitting in the NROTC Midshipmen’s lounge at the University of Washington in Seattle. Gunnery Sergeant Raymond Daly,

I grew up in central Florida in the small town of Lake Wales, went to college at Ole Miss, graduated with a degree in Math and was commissioned a Marine 2nd Lieutenant in June 1967.

After TBS, Lt Webster was assigned to MATCU- 64, MCAS New River and Air Traffic Control School NATTC Glynco, Ga. Assignments with air traffic control continued through 20 years of active duty with major assignments as the ATC OIC at El Torro,

Gentlemen: This missive is longer than I would have preferred. However, I am grateful a few of our USMC “Platoon Leaders” are still kicking since their initial tour in VN 68’/69′.